Yorktown High School - Grenadier Yearbook (Arlington, VA)

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Tf Early arrivals patiently await the beginning of a new school year. And then came the Joe Overton has two alterna- tives, one in either hand. A crowd of students cluster around the 28th Street entrance waiting for the first day to begin. ----- - - .

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The cafeteria and offices, adjacent to the old wing, are in the last stage of construction . The entrance to the varsity team’s locker room, later scene of frantic activity, stands vacant during the sumer.

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Students enter the building for their first day of classes. Diane McDowell, Judy Sells, Judy Franey, Barbara Wellman and Carol Weiss prepare to leave school. Sound and the fury The sound and the fury of the first days of school this year at York- town High School signaled the beginning of something new and promis- ing for the student body. The responsibility of opening a new school, establishing scholastic and social standards, and fulfilling the expecta- tions of the faculty, the community, the neighboring high schools, and, most important, their parents, presented a unique challenge to the stu- dents at Yorktown. Realizing that this was their job, the students im- mediately began electing their governing bodies, organizing their clubs and honor societies, establishing codes of conduct, and selecting names for their athletic teams, their newspaper, and their yearbook. Traditions began on these first days — traditions that were to set wholesome precedents for the classes that will follow to the doorsteps of York- town High School in the future. Yes, the sound and the fury came, it remained for a year, and it will surge forward again as the new school year begins in ’ 61 . Mr. Shelton and Mike Ostergard discuss the relat ive merits of an early campaign poster. Students boarding the Yellow Devil eagerly anticipate the new year.